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Roll, Ido; Holmes, Natasha G.; Day, James; Bonn, Doug – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
Invention and Productive Failure activities ask students to generate methods that capture the important properties of some given data (e.g., uncertainty) before being taught the expert solution. Invention and Productive Failure activities are a class of scientific inquiry activities in that students create, implement, and evaluate mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Metacognition, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Inquiry

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